On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Lilianne E. Blaze < lilia...@lilianne-blaze.net> wrote:
> And before someone says it's open source and I should stop bitching and > submit a patch - I _did_ submit a patch months ago :/ > Is this the patch: http://www.lilianne-blaze.net/temp_downloads/xwiki-mailsender%20patch%20v3/ Have you submitted it as an enhancement at http://jira.xwiki.org/ adding your patches as attachment? Does this patch work with 1.8RC2? IMHO, there's so much going on at Xwiki.org JIRA is the only reasonable way they can get a handle on all the enhancements, fixes, bugs and figure out a roadmap to include them in future releases. Also, I was thinking, until your patch gets integrated, it might be simpler to let XWiki talk unauthenticated to SMTP bound only to localhost (not public): Then have sendmail/exim/qmail running locally, listening to inbound smtp connections. The localhost mail daemon would then relay messages from localhost to an authenticated external SMTP server (e.g.. gmail) by customizing the local mail sending daemon to jump through whatever hoops is needed. e.g. TLS, auth, passwords, etc. That way xwiki can concentrate on being a wiki, and let the vagaries of connecting to different mail daemons be a system administration task for whoever is admining the server. Perhaps that is the logic behind not including more elaborate mail-sending functionality in XWiki -- it can be handled by an external program.... However, I must agree that authenticated email is pretty much the defacto standard and that XWiki needs to support this directly in the future. Also, you said: > registration mails still go via deprecated XWiki.sendMessage, which is > using Apache Commons SMTPClient (made obsolete by JavaMail ages ago) and > has no support for username/password and extra properties. This seems to contradict Sergiu's statement from a previous mail: The mailsender plugin uses JavaMail as the internal mail sender. Reading a > bit about the SSL/TLS support in it, I found that basically what you need > to do is define mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true. > > http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/com/sun/mail/smtp > /package-summary.html > also lists mail.smtp.ssl.protocols and mail.smtp.ssl.ciphersuites as > SSL-related properties. > > Also, in order to be able to use secure sockets, the JSSE library must > be present in the classpath (I think it is with standard JDKs), and the > host must be able to accept the server's certificate. > > About the configuration part, the mailsender uses the > javamail_extra_props property in your global XWikiPreferences as a > standard .properties file (you will need to define it in the > XWikiPreferences class, as a TextArea property). > > So, basically what you need to do is: > > 1. Edit the XWiki.XWikiPreferences class and add a TextArea property > named javamail_extra_props > 2. Edit the XWiki.XWikiPreferences object and enter in it: > mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true > 3. Find out what else needs to be done on the JVM side to make TLS work. > So which approach will work best? _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
